Chapter 375. to authorize the sale of the United States Barracks property in the city of Newport, Kentucky, and the purchase of a new site and the erection of buildings thereon
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CHAP. 375.— An Act to authorize the sale of the United States Barracks property in the city of Newport, Kentucky, and the purchase of a new site and the erection of buildings thereon.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Newport Barracks, Kentucky.Secretary of War authorized to sell. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, to sell the property now owned by the United States in the city of Newport, State of Kentucky, known as the United States Barracks property, at public auction or private sale, as may be in his judgment most advantageous to the Government. 556 Before disposing of said property the Secretary of War shall cause the grounds to be subdivided and platted in blocks, streets and alleys, corresponding as nearly as may be, with the plat of that part of the city of Newport in which said grounds are situated, and having reference to the location of the buildings thereon.
He shall cause the lots and parcels to be appraised separately and shall not sell any lot or parcel for a less amount than its appraised value. The expenses of advertisement, appraisement, survey and sale, shall be paid out of the proceeds of said sale, and the remainder shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directedNew site to be purchased. to purchase, at as early a day as practicable, a suitable site for the location of barracks, officer’s quarters, and other necessary buildings, in the county of Campbell, State of Kentucky, and as near the city of Newport as suitable grounds for that purpose can be procured, but t he same shall not cost more than sixty thousand dollars, which sum, or so much Appropriation.thereof as maybe necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is also herebyAppropriation for new buildings. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the erection of necessary and suitable buildings and the construction of other necessary improvements upon the grounds purchased by him under the second section of this act; but before such purchase is completed the title to the ground proposed to be acquired shall be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of War, shall transmit to Congress a reportReport. showing the amount realized from the sale of said property in the city’ of Newport, the expenses connected with such sale, the price paid for the new site, and the location and description of the same. Sec. 5. That the provisions of the first section of this act shall be inoperativeOld barracks not to be sold until new site selected. until the Secretary of War shall have obtained for the Government of the United States the option of the right to purchase such suitable land as he may select for a site, at a price to be approved of by him.
Approved, March 3, 1887.